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W. L. BARRON. MEANS FOR SECURING BUT-TONS T0 FABRICS.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 20, 1918.

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from the body-fabric and protect the fastening stitches againstabrasion. It has also been proposed. to use a short metal sleeve for thepurpose of spacing-the button 'from the body-fabricg the fasteningstitches passing withinthe sleeve. "lFhe first of the above mentionedenpedients for forming the desired neck is defective for the reason thatthe winding thread soon becomes worn and breaks or the end thereofbecomes loosened did and unwinds, much to the annoyance of the wearer ofthe garment. The metal sleeve expedient is undesirable for the reasonthat the comparatively sharp edges at the opposite ends of the sleeveare apt to abraid or cut the fastening stitches or the threads of thefabric to which the button is secured. llf the fastening stiches aretightly formed, so as to draw the button and metal sleeve tightlytogether and against the body fabric, the desired flexibility of theconnection between the button and fabric isdestroyed and tilting of thebutton when insertlng it in a complementary buttonhole is liable tounduly strain the fastening stitches. if the fastening stitches are nottightly formed the likelihood of the ends of the sleeve to abraid or cutthe stitching thread is increased.

Still further, it has been roposed to form a neck integral with thebutton but this expedient materially increases the cost of the buttonsand unduly increases the strain upon the fastening stitches when thebutton is tilted from side to side in inserting it in a complementarybuttonhole. Furthermore, if the neck of the button is made small enoughin diameter to be suitable it is easily broken 0d".

The present invention has for an object to provide an improved,inexpensive and durable nec we g expedient for use in con nection withbuttons secured to body-fabrics, garments or the like, whereby thebutton will be secured in the desired spaced relation to the body-fabricand the fastening stitches protected, and whereby the button ing thefastening stitches.

- re the above end a small disk of yielding may be readily tiltedwithout unduly strain-- and preferably flibl'OllS material, such as feltor the likethrough which a sewing needle may be readily passed, ispositioned between the button .and body-fabric so as to form anonraveling, non-abrading, yielding and more or less resilient neck forthe button adfording a maximum of protection for the fastening stitches.

lln the accompanying drawings, Figure l is aside elevation of the buttonas secured to a body-fabric or section of a garment. l igs. 2 and 3 arecross-sectional views and liig. d is a disassembled perspective view .ofthe invention.

-. According to the present invention, in its preferred embodiment, abutton 1 having a plurality of centrally disposed sewing eyes 2 isyleldingly held in spaced relation with the body-fabric 3 by means of adisk 41- of.

yielding, penetrable and preferably resilient material such as felt,leather, rubber or the like and the group of fastening stitches 5 whichare passed through the eyes 2 of the button, the disk t and the bodyfabric 3. Although the specific character of the stitches 5 isimmaterial, said stitches may, if

formed by a machine, comprise a needle thread and a lower orshuttle-thread inter locked at d, d. llt will be readily appreciatedthat the disk at forms a yielding neck which holds the button spacedfrom the fabric and permits the button be tilted relatively to thefabric, as shown in Fig. 3, with out aording a fulcrum about which thebutton can be tilted as a lever to strain the fastenin stitches.Moreover, when the button is ti' ted, the material of the disk d will becompressed, as at 7, Fig 3, and the penetrative portions of the stitcheswhich are held separated by the yielding wall d of material a'dforded bythe disk t will assume an easy curve instead of being bent sharply abouta corner of hard non-yielding material. original position as thecompressed edge of the disk recovers its original thiclmesa y the use ofthe present expedient, necks ldd ldd

en released the button assumes its ltd ' a of various heights may bereadily formed by providing disks i of various thicknesses.

Such disks may be made by simply punching them from sheet material and,for this reason, may be'cheaply prepared by the gar- ,ment manufacturercontemplating their use.

The term fabric is used herein in its broadest sense and is intended toinclude any sort of thinsheet material to which butfa ric, and arelatively small disk of yield-- against abrasion.

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tons are customarily attached.

Having thus set forth the nature of the invention, What ll claim hereinis 1. As a new article of manufacture, a

body-fabric, a buttonhaving sewing eyes, fastening stitches passingthrough the sewin eyes and securing the button to the bodying penetrablematerial between the sewing eyes and the body-fabric and servin as aneck .to space the button from the b0 y-fabric and to protect thefastening stitches 2. As a new article of manufacture, a body-fabric, abutton spaced from said body fabric, and'meansf for securing said button.in spaced relation to theibody fabric, said ,means including a disk ofyielding penetrable material disposed intermediate the butfabric, andfastening means extending in a direction normal to the surface of thebody-fabric from the button through the disk and into the body-fabric.

' yielding nsiaois 3. As a new article of manufacture, a body-fabric, abutton spaced from said bodyfabric, and means for securing said buttonin spaced relation to the body-fabric, said means including a separatedisk of yielding penetrable material disposed intermediate the buttonand body-fabric, and smaller in size than the button, and fasteningstitches goassing through the button, the disk and the dy-fabric.

4. As. a new article of manufacture, a body-fabric, a button having aplurality of sewing eyes, fastenin stitches passing through said eyesand into the body-fabric and a relatively small disk of soft materialseparate from the button and serving to fabric, and the stitches-passingthrough the button, the disk and body-fabric and servin to hold theparts intheir above described relative positions. 7

In testimony whe'eof I have signed my name to this specification.

L. BARRON.

